About 600 Naga Resorts Float­ing Casino workers went on strike Thurs­day, claiming that management forces them to work illegal hours and is cutting their salaries unfairly. 

The NEC is to send a delegation to Anlong Veng today in hopes of setting up voter registration centers in the recently captured Khmer Rouge stronghold, officials said. 

An independent election monitoring group has lodged a complaint with the National Election Com­mittee on Thursday, charging that local government officials are illegally interfering in the voter registration process. 

A US citizen arrested in Jan­uary shortly after military police shot at the US Embassy vehicle carrying him remains in T3 Prison, prison authorities and the embassy confirmed Wednesday. 

While illegal logging often dominates the environmental spot­­light, concern about the future of Cambodia’s coastal re­gion takes center stage today. 

Hun Sen has claimed “the law” prevents key recently-formed bodies such as the National Elec­tion Committee and the Constitu­tion­al Council from being politically biased as claimed by critics, ac­cording to the new edition of a Hong Kong-based weekly magazine. 

Complaints about strongly worded speeches by Sam Rain­sy have prompted the National Elec­tion Committee to draft a warning to all political parties, officials said. 

Ted Ngoy, chairman of the Free Development Republican Par­ty, indirectly blamed garment strikes in Cam­bodia on corrupt government officials Thursday. 

Government officials this week dismissed speculation that the printing of extra riel is fueling the currency’s depreciation. 

The inaugural meeting of the Constitutional Council, the country’s highest legal appeals body, was canceled Wednesday after its dean, Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, apparently boycotted the gathering. 

Smugglers are taking advantage of Pailin’s unique tax-free status by transporting oil and gasoline destined for the capital without paying import taxes, customs officials said Wednesday.

The CPP’s extensive network of neighborhood cell leaders has been collecting the voter registration cards of party recruits and recording their identification numbers, voters and party members said this week. 

Cambodia needs to create new laws and enforce existing ones to protect the resource-rich Tonle Sap lake in light of a new Unesco designation, government officials were told Wednesday. 

ansaong village, Prey Veng province – Police here have arrested two suspects in an alleged political killing here, claiming the slaying was the result of a long-simmering family dispute.

Seven of the Constitutional Council’s nine appointees were sworn in Tuesday, but two of the supreme legal body’s two most senior members were absent. 

RCAF generals said Tuesday that government forces had driven Ta Mok and his remaining Khmer Rouge hard-liners from their Thai border base of Ta Tum, a victory that could corner the rebels along the border and leave them few places to hide. 

o’reang-ou district, kompong cham province – Out­spoken dissident Sam Rainsy lashed out at Hun Sen on Tues­day, saying the voters are as disgusted with the second prime minister as they are with feces. 

First Prime Minister Ung Huot said Tuesday that Vietnam has agreed to three-way talks with Thailand and Cambodia concerning a controversial treaty demarcating the Gulf of Thailand. 

siem reap town – With the influence of the Khmer Rouge on the wane, officials still have one more enemy to contend with before they can safely re-open the historic temples of Phnom Kulen and Preah Vihear. 

The head of Cambodia’s central bank pledged Tuesday to keep the riel stable at about 4,000 to the US dollar by auctioning dollars every week and by increasing the interest rate of the riel.